Posted on 02/16/2019 10:35:41 AM PST by rktman
On Friday, President Trump followed through on his threat to declare a national emergency to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, announcing he had found $8 billion from various government agencies to get it done. He had his share of supporters, like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who directed him to do whatever needed to do to get that barrier built. But many others - both liberals and conservatives - were displeased with how he went about it.
Just hours after Trump's announcement, three Texas landowners and the Frontera Audubon Society in Texas, an environmental group, became the first folks to file a lawsuit against POTUS's emergency plans for the border. The government had previously informed the landowners that if the funds became available, they'd begin construction of the wall on their properties. The advocacy group Public Citizen filed the case in federal district court in Washington, D.C. on Friday, arguing the president exceeded his authority under the National Emergencies Act of 1976. The group called it a "fake national emergency."
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So, are they using that 60 foot easement for profit? Hmmmm.
That Frontera group is for the birds.
Used to be >abc<
now that only works half the time.
That is hardly the issue-obviously, these “owners”/complainants don’t live on that land-it is a field office/center and supposed bird refuge-the only in-state address listed for any of those entities is in Weslaco.
Then there is the inconvenient fact that the Audubon Society-in any incarnation-is concerned with protecting birds-birds that can fly over walls-just like the Monarch butterflies which also fly over walls-the whole thing is just a dog-and-pony show by liberals-of every ethnicity-and any private landowners like ranchers, etc who don’t want the wall near them need to be investigated for taking payoffs from drug and human traffickers/coyotes. I say that as someone who grew up on a West Texas ranch within miles of the border-I am a Texas Hispanic, too...
WHERE did obama get those billions ... in cash .. he gave to Iran?
Where was the outcry?
the gov has seized millions of acres from land owners, making it protected land. Not using it... it’s just now belongs to the government.
100% CORRECT. - TRUTH is that I suspect that NO Texas border-area landowners are against building the wall.= NONE of us TEXICANS want vicious criminals crossing our property, stealing everything in sight & “trashing” our farms & ranches.
Yours, TMN78247
So, for three Hispanics on the payroll of the cartels, and a friggin’ butterfly group, we are supposed to let the rest of America be rolled over.
Does anyone see anything bordering on rediculous, here?
Gonna cut into your payola from the cartels, Babe?
marked ,,,,,, Thanks
There’s probably a tunnel leading to her garage.
there’s a 60’ easement for the entire length of the border in place.
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Double check the Texas part......
I think the US Government owns a sixty foot wide strip of land along the whole length of the US/Mexico border.
Teddy Roosevelt did it to prevent smuggling.
So unless the US government sold it to these people, they don’t really own it anyway.
No thanks to former Congresscritter Kay Bailey Hutchinson for opening up law suits by the landowners.
Fine, they don’t like it...build it on the north side of
their property. Smile, you’re Mexican now!
Do steal fences confuse birds?
Gee, I wonder who along the border has been assisting the drug and human trafficking?
I think the US Government owns a sixty foot wide strip of
land along the whole length of the US/Mexico border.
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This 60’ ROW/easement thing goes back to the origination of
the Nation before Texas became a part of it. Texas was not
part of the original land of the USA. When the gov’t set up
the other western states it included the 60’ ROW.
When Texas came into the USA it did so as an Independent
Nation. Thus no 60’ ROW exist along the southern Texas
border.
Go dig around the net and you’ll some info about it.
If people can lose their homes for stadiums and luxury property development, you will lose your narrow strip of land for a national security project.
The land owners on the border both farmers and ranchers have suffered greatly at the hands of illegal immigration. Their lands are not safe and they live in fear. Land owners on the border that are opposed to the wall are simply benefiting financially and greatly by cartel and coyote money. Their land is simply an unofficial illegal bridge. They are part of the problem. It is really that damn simple!
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